The road to the pirates' lair is too long. It's been half a day, and the team ahead of us hasn't moved much at all.
She stood on tiptoe, looking at the unseen queue ahead, her hands gripping the shoulder straps of her insulated backpack, and then glanced at Lu Xiaoyao beside her.
The other person was also looking around, just like me. This endless line was just too ridiculous.
"How long will it take to get up there?"
Looking at the long queue ahead, Lu Xiaoyao began to lose patience.
"We'll be there soon. Once we reach our destination, the conversion device, modified by the space button, will instantly transport us into the starship," Mingmei whispered to Lu Xiaoyao. "It's the same principle as instantly entering a mecha."
"I know that principle, but it's still too slow. You know, the people in front of us aren't just taking small steps all the time. My goodness, after four or five hours, they suddenly take a big step... Did they not move for half a day, and then move for three years?"
Who knows?
Looking around at the people in front of and behind her, Mingmei couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at the sight of over a million people converging on their destination from all directions.
Looking at these people, Lu Xiaoyao couldn't help but worry and whispered to Mingmei, "With so many of us, will only 300,000+ survive in the end?"
Brightly couldn't answer her question. She looked around at the people participating in this recruitment, and most of them were young people.
Mingmei glanced at the people around her without making a sound, then lowered her eyes, a faint expectation rising in her heart.
"Perhaps what you thought that day was possible."
Suddenly, Mingmei affirmed the idea that Lu Xiaoyao had put forward a couple of days ago, which surprised Lu Xiaoyao but also left her somewhat confused, wondering why Mingmei would suddenly say such things.
Mingmei didn't have time to explain to Lu Xiaoyao at this moment. She kept looking at the people around her, as if to confirm her own thoughts.
Someone in higher-ups had the same idea as them.
Among these people, she saw many who did not seem to be ordinary people.
Bright, determined eyes, upright posture—even though they were dressed in ordinary clothes, Mingmei could vaguely guess their identities.
...
Wang Dian stood in the crowd, his head wound still not healed. Looking around, his heart still skipped a beat when he didn't see any children.
"They're gone."
Zhen Po and Wang Dian's workplaces weren't far apart, and the two had met several times on their way to and from get off work. Since they were both gamers, they gradually became familiar with each other.
He had heard about the scar on his head and what had happened.
Where are your parents?
When Wang Dian heard that Zhen Po's parents had signed up for the game, he was incredibly envious. Saving a stranger and saving someone you know or your own family are completely different feelings.
Upon hearing Wang Dian's question, Zhen Po's smile, which she had been barely managing to maintain, vanished instantly.
Wang Dian tried to persuade them, but they didn't agree.
His whole family applied, but he was the only one who got accepted.
"None of them were selected."
Zhen Po never expected that he would face screening in this situation. He was an only child. How could this be so unethical?
But as they approached the agreed location, and as Zhen Po looked at the faces and figures of the people around him, a bold idea gradually took shape in his mind.
At this moment, Zhen Po also realized a possibility:
This selection process was intentional!
There should be players among those who have the power to speak.
And the other party's meaning was quite clear.
He wants to protect those who are most capable and have the most potential.
The elderly and children... were basically abandoned by the other party.
On the one hand, Zhen Po agreed with the other party's actions, but on the other hand, he couldn't get over it emotionally.
He couldn't let go of his family, even in the game; he couldn't make that choice.
Zhen Po reached out and touched the backpack behind him. Inside were many pieces of luggage that his mother had packed for him before he left, and his father's careful instructions still echoed in his ears.
"No matter what, taking care of yourself is the most important thing. Don't act impulsively. Your mother and I are here to take care of everything at home. When you're out there alone, you must prioritize your health and safety. Your mother and I are waiting for your good news."
...
"I saw Zhen Po and the others!"
Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao walked with the crowd. Lu Xiaoyao spotted Zhen Po in the crowd at a glance. She had only met Wang Dian before, but they weren't familiar with each other. However, after she greeted him, they nodded to each other.
"Has everyone been selected?"
After spotting a familiar face, Lu Xiaoyao looked around again, hoping to run into someone else who looked familiar. She remembered that there were quite a few people living in the neighborhood.
"Some of them were not selected."
After Zhen Po finished speaking, he sighed and talked about several classmates he knew who were very enthusiastic about signing up, but all of them were rejected.
Wang Dian watched from the side for a long time without saying anything about Ye Qing.
The other party voluntarily gave up the registration, and he didn't know what the other party was thinking. He could only say that he respected it, and it was not a good matter to discuss this with others.
The other party's choice was not something he brought up as a point of doubt or as a topic of conversation.
"That's true. There are so many people in the country, how many of us players are there? It's possible that we've been filtered out."
Lu Xiaoyao felt it was a pity, and Mingmei also felt that this matter was melancholy.
But there's nothing that can be done about it; the game has to go on, and those who were chosen are destined to keep moving forward.
However, what made Mingmei and the others uneasy was that, with so many of them queuing and stopping along the way, it took them a whole day to actually enter the starship.
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